Sunday, 7 October 2012

Addressing the 'Conflict Minerals' Crisis in the Great Lakes Region

The year 2011 heralded the convergence of various initiatives seeking to curtail the financing of conflict in the Great Lakes region through the illegal exploitation of minerals. This policy brief provides a framework for responding to the unintended consequences of existing initiatives in the region. It details the areas of immediate impact of these initiatives, their overall impact on the trends of insecurity in the region and ways of addressing the issues in the short to medium term. Read more

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